Physics End-of-Year Jeopardy

Kinematics and Dynamics

100

The name of the unit used to measure force

What is a Newton?

200

The two types of friction

What are static and kinetic?

300

The type of launch for a Type I projectile

What is horizontal?

400

The x-component of a vector with a magnitude V and an angle theta above the horizontal

What is Vcos(theta)?

500

The type of system in which multiple blocks are connected by a rope or string and subsequently move together

What is an Atwood machine?

Energy and Momentum

100

The type of energy associated with motion

What is kinetic energy?

200

The type of energy associated with height on the surface of Earth

What is gravitational potential energy?

300

The change in the state of motion for an object when negative work is done on it

What is slowing down?

400

The name of the quantity equivalent to the change in an object's momentum 

What is impulse?

500

The type of collision in which two objects stick together after colliding

What is a perfectly inelastic collision?

Circular Motion and Oscillations

100

How the gravitational force from Earth on an object changes when the object gets further away from Earth 

Force decreases

200

The direction of velocity in circular motion, relative to the circular path

What is tangential?

300

Hooke's Law in equation form

What is F = -kx?

400

The last name of the person whose discovered laws govern planetary motion

What is Kepler?

500

The force that acts as the centripetal force for a car turning around a corner

What is the force of friction?

Reflection and Refraction

100

The speed of light in a vacuum

What is 3 x 10⁸ m/s?

200

The type of image formed when light rays do not meet, but instead diverge and appear to have met at the image location

What is a virtual image?

300

The equation form of Snell's Law

What is n₁sin(theta₁) = n₂sin(theta₂)?

400

The diameter of a spherical mirror with a focal length of 2 cm

What is 8 cm?

500

The index of refraction of water

What is 1.33?

Electricity and Magnetism

100

The name of the unit used to measure resistance

What is an ohm?

200

The type of connection for which both elements have the same voltage across them in a circuit

What is parallel?

300

The shape of a magnetic field around a current-carrying wire

What is circular?

400

The direction of electron flow when a positively charged insulator (A) comes near a grounded neutral conductor (B), without making contact

What is from the ground to the conductor (A)?

500

The tool used to measure current

What is an ammeter?